Recent advances in identifying risk-associated genes have provided unprecedented
opportunities for developing animal models for psychiatric disease research with the goal of …

The neuropathological basis of schizophrenia and related psychoses remains elusive
despite intensive scientific investigation. Symptoms of psychosis have been reported in a …

Inflammation and maternal or fetal infections have been suggested as risk factors for
schizophrenia (SZ) and bipolar disorder (BP). It is likely that such environmental effects are …

The powerful genome-wide association studies (GWAS) revealed common mutations that
increase susceptibility for schizophrenia (SZ) and bipolar disorder (BD), but the vast majority …

Background Childhood trauma, cannabis use and certain personality traits have been
related to the development of psychosis. This study uses a sib-pair design to examine the …

Schizophrenia research has undergone a recent transformation. By leveraging large sample
sizes, genome-wide association studies of common genetic variants have approximately …

Several lines of evidence indicate that schizophrenia has a strong genetic component. But
the exact nature and functional role of this genetic component in the pathophysiology of this …

To investigate whether aberrant interactions between brain structure and function present
similarly or differently across probands with psychotic illnesses [schizophrenia (SZ) …

Schizophrenia (SCZ) is a severe psychiatric illness with a lifetime prevalence of 0.4%. A
disturbance of energy metabolism has been suggested as part of the etiopathogenesis of …

Schizophrenia is a complex pathology characterized by the occurrence of a variety of
symptoms classified as positive, negative and cognitive. Although the exact …